Norton Critical Editions Sister Carrie: A Norton Critical Edition, Book 0, (Paperback)

from keristars

I had heard about Sister Carrie prior to deciding to read it, but nothing specific. I knew that it had some sort of feminist theme and that it discussed the working class at some point, but that was about all I knew. It was mostly happenstance that I decided to read it - an offhand mention in a t...

from csweder

This was a tragedy. Absolutely and completely. It begins with a young woman (Carrie) moving to the big city (Chicago) to find work. Instead what she finds is a difficult life. Getting work is very difficult, and when she gets it, it's hardly enough to cover rent--let alone clothes for the winter....

from LukeS

Buddha teaches that the suffering we experience in life comes from desire. "Sister Carrie" expresses and reinforces this truth with such singleness of purpose that it becomes ponderous, a drag. This book holds its place in the American canon because it broke the shocking new ground of realism whe...

from mullgirl

Sister Carrie was one of Dreiser's first novels. It was not well-received when first published in 1900 for a variety of reasons, my favorite being that people of that day had a hard time with the book's female protagonist not getting her due (as in negative consequences for all of her naughty dec...

from SteveLindahl

Sister Carrie was published in 1900, so I suppose it still qualifies as nineteenth century literature. There's a tendency in works of that time to tell the readers what the characters are feeling rather than showing them in scenes and this book is a good example. It took me awhile to get used to ...